I am a career Law Enforcement Officer serving the community since 1974. A fellow findagrave member pointed me to the findagrave website after he was attempting to locate a cemetery in the Centerville, Houston County, Georgia area and I have thoroughly enjoyed utilizing the website to locate family members and document grave sites wherever located. I have shared the website with many family and friends and have made several friends across the country as a result of utilizing the site. Should I ever really go into retirement, I plan to take a more active role in working on locating and documenting grave sites wherever I locate them and want to thank everyone in the findagrave family for all they do to make this site successful.

Orvel Lynn JoinerI want to thank you so very much for the transfer. My family and I am so thankful that you put his obit in Find a grave. There are a couple of things that I will correct for this site.

I have noticed that you have several Cooper family memorials, are any of them related to the Cooper-Hall family that I am researching. The family was located in or around Appling County, Georgia. Some have moved away and some stayed. Any help would be appreciateted.

RE: Old Chewalca CemeteryHello Mr. Cooper,Sorry for delay in responding, but I've been out of town. As far as I can tell, the only way to get a cemetery name change is via the "Cemetery Correction Forum", by which one starts a string justifying such a change. I don't know who originated the name "Chamblee" for this cemetery. It appears as such in the Alabama Cemetery Registry & on USGS maps; it is also called "Chamblee" in the only published version I know of, which is by Robert C. Horn in "Tap Roots" (East Alabama Genealogical Society), Vol. 22, No. 1 (July 1984). I also don't know who originated the site for this cemetery in "Find-a-Grave"; I added my wife's Cooper ancestors there as well as some others I noted were not already added, because that was the already established site. I would hope that "Cherry" or Edna Ward or someone with the actual documentary backing would initiate the change to "Old Chewacla."Joseph W. & Julia Elliott Cooper are my wife's 3d great grandparents; are you related to them?

I have followed closely the wonderful work you have done in the Smith Family Cemetery. Indeed, this is my family as I am a double descendent of William Smith through Ardella and Needham. I would be proud to accept custodianship of the memorials you have so carefully created.